DANIELL TO SERVE AS POETRY JUDGE: Rosemary Daniell, known as one of the finest writing coaches in the country, has agreed to serve as judge for the 2007 Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowships in poetry. She will read with the winners and also conduct one of her distinctive Zona Rosa writing workshops as part of the Casper College Literary Conference/Equality State Book Festival Oct. 19-21 in Casper. Rosemary, author of The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself, founded Zona Rosa, which began as a series of creative writing workshops in Georgia and then expanded to locales worldwide, including a two-week retreat she leads each September in the south of France. Her new book, set for a May release by Owl Books (a Henry Holt imprint), is Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women’s Lives. Erica Jong, author of Fear of Flying, has called Rosemary “am enormously gifted poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer…She is one of the women by whom our age will be known in times to come.” Rosemary began as a poet, publishing three books of poetry, the most recent, A Sexual Tour of the Deep South. She worked as a poet in the schools in the 1970s, and compiled the chapbook Joy to the World: Writing Poems with Children in Georgia, published by the Georgia Council on the Arts. She has received both poetry and prose fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her revolutionary memoir, Fatal Flowers, won the 1999 Palimpsest Prize for a most-requested out-of-print book. That book and her second memoir, Sleeping with Soldiers, were forerunners of the current memoir craze. She is the author a recent essay collection, Confessions of a (Female) Chauvinist. Her features and reviews have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, New York Woman, Mother Jones, Travel & Leisure, and The New York Times Book Review, among others. She has been profiled in People and Southern Living magazines, and has appeared on TV and radio shows such as CNN Health, The Diane Roehm Show and Larry King. Rosemary has been a resident writer at Wyoming’s Ucross Foundation. She lives in Savannah.
